Eve Of Wide Island Is Not A Child Anymore (CD-R)
by Herzbeat Hotel
Shaped by the concept of transformation in time and coming of age, "Eve Of Wide Island..." contains a single track which moves from string drone-trance to layers of melody to horn-induced ecstasy in the range of 17 minutes, ending on a wash of cymbal white noise.
Herzbeat Hotel's debut release, "Eve Of Wide Island..." exists in a thematic non-space hovering above India, Medieval Europe, the Near East and the seasons of the human mind.
- Artwork by Damien Yates and Anton Van Ringe
- Very limited edition with an everytime diferent stamp
Press articles
Herzbeat Hotel - "Eve Of Wide Island Is Not A Child Anymore"
"Damien Yates and Anton van Ringe, the mentors of Herzbeat Hotel (...) see music as something essentially spiritual, regarding each perfomance more as a ritual (...) and less as what has been agreed on as 'art'. 'Eve Of Wide Island...' shows strong influences of European medieval music (...) run through Moondog or Harry Partch filters (...). This is music that needs to be considered in its various levels of meaning, leaving as an afterthought a disconcerting feeling of experimentalism."
Rui Eduardo Paes (2005) - www.rep.no.sapo.pt
Herzbeat Hotel - "Eve Of Wide Island Is Not A Child Anymore"
"The whistle kind of percussion instrument which has sounded at your Kyoto temple interwinding gradually, the length which rises (...) The smoke it is - to be, it seems that is felt at atmosphere (and smile) and the temple sound. It is splendid."
Ove-Naxx (software-rendered translation of original Japanese review, 2006) - www.accelmuzhik.net
Herzbeat Hotel - "Eve Of Wide Island Is Not A Child Anymore"
"(...) a long track supported by a droney and minimalistic sitar line, the emergence of a ritualistic drumbeat, the overlapping of strings into a melody redolent of Eastern European folk, and the arrival of a massed unidentified wind instrument, that multiplies itself in a choral harmony pointing directly to the sky. Not to everybody's liking, but truly beautiful."
Stefano I. Bianchi (2006) Blow Up Magazine
